July 17, 2010

Words in the News: Fight Your Corner

The Financial Times reports that Prime Minister David Cameron intends to push the importance of BP for the British economy during his two-day Washington trip next week. Full story >>

VOCABULARY If you fight your corner, you state your view and vigorously defend it. • The proposal wasn’t originally very popular, so we really had to fight our corner to get it accepted. This idiom comes from boxing, where fighters wore colours and defended ‘the red corner’ or ‘the blue corner’, etc. (Source: IdiomDictionary.com)

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The Financial Times reports that Prime Minister David Cameron intends to push the importance of BP for the British economy during his two-day Washington trip next week. Full story >>

VOCABULARY If you fight your corner, you state your view and vigorously defend it. • The proposal wasn’t originally very popular, so we really had to fight our corner to get it accepted. This idiom comes from boxing, where fighters wore colours and defended ‘the red corner’ or ‘the blue corner’, etc. (Source: IdiomDictionary.com)